Fastly’s New Dashboard Helps Businesses Make Climate-Smart Decisions

Businesses in Australia and New Zealand now have a powerful new tool for managing their environmental impact, thanks to Fastly’s recently launched sustainability dashboard. This platform provides detailed, actionable data on carbon emissions linked to using Fastly’s edge computing services, helping organizations meet tightening regulatory demands for supply chain transparency. The dashboard enables users to collect data on carbon hotspots, export reports for annual disclosures, and pull emissions data straight into existing workflows.

In today’s economic climate, sustainability is no longer a secondary concern but a core component of long-term business strategy. Companies face increasing pressure from regulators, investors, and customers to demonstrate genuine environmental responsibility. Integrating strong sustainability practices directly supports investment opportunities, strengthens tender applications, and boosts both customer loyalty and employee retention.

For enterprise leaders, embedding sustainability requires clear key performance indicators and measurable targets that are woven into the fabric of business planning. Fastly’s dashboard delivers the trusted, granular data needed for this integration. It provides detailed insights into electricity consumption, renewable energy coverage, and the resulting carbon emissions from using the Fastly platform. This allows companies to not just track and report their environmental footprint, but to truly understand and actively optimize it.

A particularly valuable feature is the visibility the tool offers beyond Fastly’s own infrastructure. Users gain insight into the electricity consumed by the data centres that host Fastly equipment, providing a clearer picture of the entire upstream carbon footprint. This comprehensive view is critical for Australian enterprises that must comply with the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Scheme. This regulation applies to companies with a consolidated revenue of $50 million or more, those employing over 100 people, or organizations holding consolidated gross assets of $25 million or more.

Every metric within the sustainability dashboard is backed by a published methodology aligned with the universal Greenhouse Gas Protocol. This ensures the numbers are fully traceable, saving valuable time and building stakeholder confidence in the credibility of carbon disclosures. With this level of transparency, businesses can make informed, data-driven decisions to balance high performance with environmental goals.

Because the data updates daily and is tied directly to an organization’s platform usage, companies can now:

• Identify carbon hotspots rapidly and take immediate steps to address them.
• Monitor changes in their emissions profile in near real-time, rather than waiting for quarterly or annual reports.
• Seamlessly combine emissions data with existing observability tools for a complete understanding of their edge computing impact.

Key functionalities of the dashboard include:

Daily Refreshed Data: Organizations no longer need to rely on outdated annual reports. They can observe how their usage influences emissions on a day-to-day basis.

Granular Breakdowns: Data can be explored and filtered by specific timeframes, geographic regions, or product areas such as Delivery, Compute, and Shared services.

Flexible Integrations: Enterprises can export data as a CSV file or leverage Fastly’s API-first design to feed emissions data directly into their existing workflows and internal observability pipelines.

Regional Insights: The dashboard breaks down electricity consumption, location, and market-based emissions by country. This country-level view helps identify where internet traffic is “dirtier.” If a company is relying too heavily on regions with fossil-fuel-heavy energy grids, it can adjust its caching strategy to shift load to cleaner areas without compromising user speed. It also shows the renewable coverage percentage, clarifying exactly how much clean energy is powering specific workloads.

Derek Rast, Area Vice President for Australia and New Zealand at Fastly, emphasized the company’s vision, stating, “We’ve always believed that a better internet is also a more sustainable one. Our sustainability dashboard represents a crucial step for our valued customers and is simply the right thing to do for the environment. It ties emissions data directly to your Fastly workloads, and with that visibility, users can finally make data-driven decisions about how to optimize for both performance and sustainability.”

(Source: ITWire Australia)